IU Musculoskeletal Health Center Appoints Director

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Lynda Bonewald has been named the first director of the Indiana Center for Musculoskeletal Health at the Indiana University School of Medicine. She is an internationally recognized scientific and academic leader in bone research. Dr. Bonewald, whose research focuses on aspects of bone biology, is currently director of the Kansas City Consortium for Musculoskeletal Diseases and Disorders, the UMKC Center of Excellence in Dental and Mineralized Tissue and the School of Dentistry Bone Biology Research Program. After receiving her doctorate in immunology/microbiology from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1984, she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Charleston. Dr. Bonewald will join the musculoskeletal center July 1.